53 examples of prefigured in sentences

"The connection between the Christian and the Jewish feasts is both historical and idealhistorical because our Lord's death happened on the 15th Nisan, the first day of the Jewish feast; ideal, because what took place had been prefigured in the Old Testament by types, of which itself was the antitype.

And when she saw the better feeling triumph, a tear of exquisite pleasure dimmed her eye, for in that trifling circumstance she saw the many trials and temptations of after life prefigured, and hoped they would end as that did, in the victory of the noble and generous impulses of the heart.

That is the end of man; that is what is prefigured when a baby's hand reaches for the sun.

Perhaps this struggle may be prefigured in the old Northern myth of the Twilight of the Gods.

Although this plebeian nobility, in the strict sense of the term, could only be formed after the curule offices were opened to plebeians, yet it exhibited in a short time, if not at the very first, a certain compactness of organizationdoubtless because such a nobility had long been prefigured in the old senatorial plebeian families.

His boyhood, as usual, prefigured the mature man: it was diligent in study, hilarious at play; his mind bent upon solid things, not the showy.

Scholars find Greece completely prefigured in Homer, and the time may come when Dante and Tasso shall be the leading authorities for the history of the Middle Ages, and Milton for that of the ages of Protestantism.

It is not too much to say that a new chapter in the world's history will open before our astonished eyes, so adequately is the gigantic struggle between the black and white races prefigured in the persons of their chosen champions.

In the macrocosm of the universe things go on as in the microcosm of the monad; every later state of the world is prefigured in the earlier, etc.

The intellect should not be compared to a blank tablet, but to a block of marble in whose veins the outlines of the statue are prefigured.

The positive doctrines of Thomasius have less interest than this general standpoint, which prefigured the succeeding period.

Pope's creation of Gnomes, in the Rape of the Lock, is here prefigured.

Exactly as he had prefigured, this talk was going.

The day of atonement prefigured the atonement of Christ, and the year of jubilee, the gospel jubilee.

The day of atonement prefigured the atonement of Christ, and the year of jubilee, the gospel jubilee.

The day of atonement prefigured the atonement of Christ, and the year of jubilee, the gospel jubilee.

The day of atonement prefigured the atonement of Christ, and the year of jubilee, the gospel jubilee.

The day of atonement prefigured the atonement of Christ, and the year of jubilee, the gospel jubilee.

The day of atonement prefigured the atonement of Christ, and the year of jubilee, the gospel jubilee.

In that memorable struggle, the issue of which to some extent prefigured the shape that the government of the United States was to take five hundred years afterward, the cities and boroughs supported Simon de Montfort, the leader of the popular party and one of the foremost among the heroes and martyrs of English liberty.

In a pageant the woman, full-veined and comely, her russet gown girded up like a harvester's might not inaptly have prefigured October; and for less comfortable November you could nowhere have found a symbol more precise than her lank companion, humorously peevish under his white thatch of hair, and constantly fretted by the sword tapping at his ankles.

And how in the end does the chain of influences find b rather than c unless b is somehow prefigured in them already?

Mustn't the whole fact be prefigured in each part, and exist de jure before it can exist de facto?

Here we see dimly prefigured a modern editor prematurely soliciting the support of Great Names.

Joyless, vacant, barren hours prefigured themselves to me, drifting through my brain, till their vacant shapes crowded it into darkness.

53 examples of  prefigured  in sentences